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First Free Wireless Link Between Europe And Africa

Posted by timothy on from the one-swallow's-flight dept.

Paul Bawon writes "A company called PSAND have just installed a wireless link between Tarifa in Spain and Tangiers in Morocco, thus linking the African and European continents together with a free wireless link. The link went across the Straits of Gibraltar with a total distance of 32 km over the sea. Images can be found here and notes from the work can be found here."

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  1. Cool... by miroth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Images of a wireless connection? I gotta see this.

    1. Re:Cool... by Orgazmus · · Score: 3, Funny

      Its probably on the other side of the wireless link ;)

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  2. URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED by The+I+Shing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wonderful! With this new cross-continental wireless connection, those poor, hapless widows of deposed and assassinated heads of the Nigerian government and industry can all the more easily appeal for help in moving their vast sums of wealth into foreign bank accounts!

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  3. That was fast... by jdreed1024 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Images can be found here

    Not anymore. *insert joke about server being hosted via wireless link* *insert joke about african vs european swallows and their airspeed velocity using IP over avian carrier*

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  4. Marconi.... by Rhubarb+Crumble · · Score: 2, Funny
    ....did this in 1901 between europe and america, and it took them 103 years to do it over 1/1000th the distance?

    Oh, you meant wireless TCP/IP? Why didn't you say so.

  5. Anyone else notice? by marnargulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you look at the picture closely you can see dozens of nerds with laptops boating around.

  6. Based on My Experience in Tangiers by nightsweat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure the wireless signal was then immediately hustled into a rug and kaftan shop.

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  7. In other news... by p4ul13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... the sales figures for Pringles in Spain and Morocco have sky-rocketed.

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  8. Re:Internet + Power = Information by therealtroff · · Score: 3, Funny
    I recently sent her a solar powered lantern... because she has no good way to read when the sun goes down.
    I'm not so sure this will solve her problems.
  9. Wireless internet pics ..... by dickeya · · Score: 1, Funny

    ....taken with a lens-less camera by a guy with no hands. Creepy.